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Principal Software Engineer (Agentic AI)

HeyMilo AI

HeyMilo AI

Software Engineering, Data Science
Western Province, Sri Lanka
Posted on Jan 31, 2026
HeyMilo helps recruiters deploy multimodal AI agents that interview and evaluate candidates at scale. We're a fast-moving team backed by prominent investors growing at an unprecedented rate.

You'll own architectural decisions, ship end-to-end, and lead technical direction across our platform. This is a high-ownership role, not a ticket queue.

Requires flexibility to work evenings (IST) for overlap with our New York/Toronto teams.

What You'll Do

  • Lead system design and architecture decisions
  • Build and scale real-time AI infrastructure
  • Ship full-stack features across backend and frontend
  • Drive reliability, performance, and observability
  • Mentor engineers and set technical standards

What We're Looking For

  • 5–7+ years of software engineering experience
  • Strong distributed systems and AWS experience
  • Experience building agentic AI systems; prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, LLM orchestration
  • Familiarity with vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation patterns
  • You use AI tools (Cursor, Devin) to write code daily
  • You ship fast and own outcomes
  • Comfortable with Python, FastAPI, React, Next.js
  • Experience with MongoDB, Redis, and queue-based systems

Role is not for you if

  • You want narrow scope and predictable roadmaps
  • You avoid production responsibility
  • You're not comfortable with evening hours for cross-timezone work

Why you won't regret it

  • Real-time AI systems in production
  • Small team, high ownership, no bureaucracy
  • Awesome culture with a global team across New York 🇺🇸, Toronto 🇨🇦, and Colombo 🇱🇰.
  • Competitive salary with benefits/allowances